BACKGROUND The purposes of the present study were morphometric characterization of rostellar hooks of Taenia multiceps and to investigate the association of hook length variation and the variability within two mitochondrial genes of sheep isolates of the parasite. METHODS Up to 4500 sheep brains were examined for the presence of C. cerebralis. Biometric characters based on the larval rostella...

We describe the CT and MR findings in a 1 0-year-old boy who presented with a 5-year history of headache, often relieved by vomiting. He had had a seizure approximately 1 year prior to admission and a second seizure 1 month before admission. The patient had performed poorly in school. On examination, there was a left-sided weakness and bilateral papilledema. The boy lived on a farm , where he p...

background: the purposes of the present study were morphometric characteri-zation of rostellar hooks of taenia multiceps and to investigate the association of hook length variation and the variability within two mitochondrial genes of sheep isolates of the parasite. methods: up to 4500 sheep brains were examined for the presence of c. cerebralis . biometric characters based on the larval rostel...

Osseous hydatid disease is a rare but serious condition. Treatment is difficult because of the progressive course of the bone involvement and generally admitted algorithm about osseous hydatid disease. We report a sixyear follow-up of a case with involvement of the left femur, treated with an unconnected surgical method and albendazole. In this patient a 1 cm segment of the cortex between the t...

Type material of the proteocephalidean cestodes Manaosia bracodemoca Woodland, 1935 and Paramonticellia itaipuensis Pavanelli et Rego, 1991 (both monotypic genera) as well as recently collected material of the latter species are redescribed. A close similarity between both species was observed: the shape of scoleces is identical, both possess a globular scolex with hidden suckers, a well-develo...

The family Rhopalothylacidae (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) is reviewed. The type species, Rhopalothylax gymnorhynchoides Guiart, 1935, is redescribed from the type specimens and belongs within the genus Pintneriella Yamaguti, 1934, previously described only from the plerocercus. Rhopalothylax therefore becomes a junior synonym of Pintneriella. The adult of Pintneriella musculicola Yamaguti, 1934 is...

A 9-year old girl came to the medicine outpatient department (OPD) with a history suggestive of upper respiratory tract infection. No improvement was seen even after 2 weeks of treatment and the patient was admitted. Routine chest X-ray revealed dense homogenous opacity involving the right lower zone with obliteration of costophrenic angle. CT scan showed thick walled cystic lesion occupying th...